Yonas of Ethiopia
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Yonas or Jonah was nəgusä nägäst (18 August 1797 – 4 January 1798) of Ethiopia. He was the son of Letezum. The traveler Henry Salt lists Yonas as one of the Emperors still alive at the time of his visit to northern Ethiopia in 1809/1810.1
He was a figurehead, proclaimed Emperor by Ras Isra'el of Begemder, and deposed by Gugsa, a chieftain of the Yejju Oromo.2
[edit] Bibliography
- Henry Salt, A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country, 1814 (London: Frank Cass, 1967), p. 474.
- E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970) p. 479.
| Preceded by Salomon III |
Emperor of Ethiopia 1797–1798 |
Succeeded by Tekle Giyorgis I |
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